Welcome to the 8a community

Here is a short guide to some of the 8a features in order to give you a quick start

1. Log-in with your ID#, you find it on the presentation side, or with you email address. If you don’t remember your password or if you have other problems logging in, this link might help you.

2. Keep track of your ascents through a scorecard or log-book,log-book membership means no score or ranking. Set your preferences on the "Settings/presentation" page and then use the "add routes" and "add boulders" buttons, here you will also find a grade conversion table (8a=5.13b=29=V11)

3. Points and score system is explained here. The ascents that count for you will be found at the top of your scorecard "Top-10 routes/boulders". 8a means routes and 8A means boulders. We introduced this convention in 2002 and it is now getting a widely used standard.

4. Via "Updates – Search" you can search for your friends, routes/boulders or ascents.

5. You can stay automatically updated of your friends' latest ascents, by clicking on the "Add to My Updates" button on their scorecards/log-books.

6. You can send messages to any member, a good way to e.g. get information of crags, routes and boulders.

7. In the Crag database you may search for the three stars routes/most onsighted or most popular routes for a particular crag!

8. Other features include photo gallery, personal blog and training log

We would also like to mention that there is no thing such important as access and safety for the climbing community. Always try to make other climbers be careful with access and safety! We would also like to explain that we do think that climbing is foremost about adrenalin, scenery and nice people Sometimes you can add grades and points and it gets even more exiting, but don't lose your perspective.

Take care and enjoy!

Climbing regards,

The www.8a.nu team

[email protected]